Purple Mist Dao Master-Chapter 144 - 125 Golden Touch Yan Chuan!

Huo Zhen left.

Leading a group of Old School Martial Artists away, Luo Bing was among them.

This battle.

They originally intended to snipe Yan Chuan, strike at Taikang Academy, but in the end, among dozens of martial artists in the melee, Yan Chuan single-handedly subdued them with ease. Additionally, Yan Chuan’s guidance in battle allowed Huo Zhen to break through, surely establishing Yan Chuan’s renowned reputation.

Following Guangling County, it won’t be a few days before Yan Chuan’s name will shake Taikang County!

In Guangling County, ’Golden Touch’ Yan Chuan was far less resounding than ’Shadowless Kick’ Yan Chuan.

This time, in Taikang County, Yan Chuan publicly guided the renowned ’Butterfly Sect’ Leader Huo Zhen to break through at once, becoming a Limit-breaking Level master.

Unlike in Guangling, in Taikang, Yan Chuan’s ’Golden Touch’ title is destined to be more resounding than ’Shadowless Kick’.

"Although I didn’t witness Professor Yan’s ’Shadowless Kick’ that made a name in Guangling today, seeing Professor Yan suppress the Old School, and teaching a Grandmaster in three words, I am impressed!"

"A new generation replaces the old! We old folks are really falling behind! Professor Yan, well done!"

"I am Xu Shan of the ’Great Sorrow Palm’, and I hope to receive more of Professor Yan’s guidance in the future!"

...

After Huo Zhen and others left, over here at Taikang Academy, from professors to teachers to lecturers, all gathered around, all wanting to converse and make connections with Yan Chuan.

When they first met yesterday, these people were not so enthusiastic.

Obviously——

"They saw you guide Huo Zhen, saw Huo Zhen break through, so they all came to get close to you, hoping to make progress too!"

Shao Yancong pulled Yan Chuan away from the crowd and led him to the Inner Courtyard, clearly seeing the essence of those people’s enthusiasm, and sighed to Yan Chuan: "In the Old School, many people are like Huo Zhen, stagnant and with no path forward. Now that you’ve shown your skills today, there will be no shortage of disturbances in the future. Not just the Old School. Even the New Faction, even the Martial Arts Academies, those whose Qi-Blood has reached the extreme but cannot break through, aren’t they also numerous?"

Inner Courtyard.

Shao Yancong looked at Yan Chuan, full of emotion.

He knew Yan Chuan was good at guiding and teaching students.

But he would never have thought that Yan Chuan was so adept at guiding, so skilled at teaching students, even able to hand-teach a Limit-breaking Level master.

This is astonishing!

Beside him, Zhao Ye said, "Huo Zhen is strong, but a few professors in our Taikang Academy are not inferior, their Qi-Blood has already started to decline. The academy doesn’t have treasures that assist in breaking limits, but it does have some second-tier treasures or secret medicines that can push one’s Qi-Blood close to the limit."

Zhao Ye’s eyes burned as he looked at Yan Chuan, his intention clear without words.

"Elder Shao."

"Elder Zhao."

Yan Chuan smiled wryly, "I was also lucky."

It was indeed lucky.

Others don’t know, but Yan Chuan knows, Huo Zhen’s breakthrough this time seemed entirely due to his guidance, but actually, Huo Zhen’s accumulation, his thirty years of painstaking practice, these were the key.

Yan Chuan had taught Wei Quan, Yu Jinpeng, and Jin Yutang; he had guided many people and knew that the 50% understanding effect improvement on the listener granted by ’Mutual Teaching and Learning’ was not universal.

For example, Wei Quan.

While at the Four Realms Peak in ’Horse Stance’ and ’Twelve Bridge Hands’, despite Yan Chuan’s daily guidance and teaching, his progress was minimal, sometimes even regressive.

This is a bottleneck!

And it’s just a bottleneck from a basic Pile Skill and boxing, transitioning from the Fourth Realm to the Fifth Realm, which had stuck him for too long, making lecturing futile.

Let alone Huo Zhen?

This Sect Leader Huo’s bottleneck between limit and limit-breaking was a great gap, a chasm where the 50% understanding efficiency improvement of ’Mutual Teaching and Learning’ had a negligible effect.

Being able to break through this time——

First is ’Mutual Teaching and Learning’.

Second is Yan Chuan’s high proficiency in boxing, where his boxing skill far exceeded that of Huo Zhen, allowing him to guide from a position of superiority.

But the most important factor was Huo Zhen’s own accumulation, it was Huo Zhen’s opportunity, his momentum had reached the point where a light push from Yan Chuan allowed him to take that last crucial step.

Huo Zhen can do it!

Academy professors?

One thin thread of difference separates heaven and earth!

"Heavenly Time!"

"Geographical Advantage!"

"Human Harmony!"

"All three are indispensable!"

Yan Chuan shook his head, "This is too rare!"

...

"Brother Zhao and I were once stuck at the limit of Qi-Blood, between life and death, so we know how hard it is."

"We don’t ask for the limit to be broken in one or two tries, but hope that when Professor Yan comes to the academy to give lectures every month, he can provide some guidance, giving them more hope."

Shao Yancong spoke sincerely.

He was an Inner Court Elder, but among the professors and even the teachers, there were his old friends.

Different lives for different people!

Having joined Taikang Academy, Shao Yancong, with both skill and opportunity at hand, could break through at once. But those old friends, even with the backing of the academy, some made limited progress, others stagnated, and some even regressed.

The same rice supports a hundred different people!

One academy, different fates!

Shao Yancong watched one old friend after another age, retire from the Jianghu, and return to play with grandchildren. Though envious, it was also bittersweet.

Now, seeing Yan Chuan and witnessing Huo Zhen break through, Shao Yancong saw hope, and naturally wanted to help these old friends.

Yan Chuan understood and agreed, "I will certainly do my best!"

Each time he guides or teaches, he holds nothing back.

Whether it works or not depends on fate!

But he definitely does his best.

Seeing Yan Chuan agree, Shao Yancong was reassured, and he then changed the topic, still discussing Huo Zhen: "There are quite a few people like Huo Zhen in the Old School. If they were willing to join the academy, apart from Huo Zhen, perhaps two or three other Limit-breaking masters could emerge!"

Old School is stubborn!

Yet also filled with heroes!

In Guangling County, there are figures like the ’Seven Immortal Swords’, the ’Songhe Five Elders’, and the ’Guangling Ten Tigers’, all once peak figures.

However.

Times have changed.

Those entering Guangling Academy mostly soared to greater heights.

Like Wang Kuan.

Like Yuan Shicai.

But those who remained stuck in the old ways, like ’Iron Foot’ Hu Baichuan and ’Secret Sect Boxing’ Luo Liang, have been left behind by the tide of the times and ultimately will be weeded out.

Such is Guangling County.

The same goes for Taikang County.

"Taikang County!"

"The Seven Heroes!"

"Among them were once the top figures in the county——"

"Whether it’s the ’Luo Brothers’ Luo Hao and Luo Yi, or the ’Wang Brothers’ Wang Can and Wang Lan, they all had hope to break the limit, but due to their conservatism and unwillingness to strive forward, they ultimately missed the golden opportunity."

Zhao Ye shook his head.

The Seven Heroes!

Fourteen people!

This was the top experts of Taikang County in its days of glory, such as he and Shao Yancong, who were known as the ’Hidden Mist Double Heroes’ due to their boxing training at Hidden Mist Mountain early on, and were counted among the ’Seven Heroes’.

The two entered the academy, achieving limit-breaking, thus distancing themselves from their once peers, watching as one after another, these former equals were abandoned by the era, Zhao Ye was filled with emotion and lamentation.

But if——

"If the court were willing to tell them about the earth-shattering secret, for example, Sect Leader Huo, or my master, although they are conservative, if it was for the sake of the world, they would certainly be willing to join the New Faction, not caring about the division of one family or another!"

Yan Chuan sighed as well.

If a few years ago, when Guangling County just established an academy, someone had informed Cheng Fengxiao of the existence of ’Mountain and Sea Realm’, knowing the greater good, how could Cheng Fengxiao persist in ’Cheng Family Boxing’ and the small ground of ’Iron Wire Martial Arts Hall’?

But the Great Yan Court kept the ’Mountain and Sea Realm’ hidden, which led to individuals like Cheng Fengxiao and Huo Zhen of their generation becoming the tragedies of the era.

Cheng Fengxiao and Huo Zhen were rather fortunate.

The latter had already broken the limit.

The former obtained a ’Star Stone’, ventured into the Mountain and Sea Realm, and had his opportunity.

But what about the others?

Luo Liang!

Hu Baichuan!

What about them?

All are like fleeting clouds!

Yan Chuan himself can also be considered in this category, almost being discarded by the era, hence his sentiments.

However.

Standing with the New Faction, standing with the court, is another perspective——

"You already know about that place?"

Shao Yancong was puzzled, looking at Yan Chuan with surprise.

Yan Chuan nodded, "With the help of the Senior Jiang Bianliu from the Cangwu Department, I was fortunate to enter once."

He was ambiguous in his words——

He didn’t say how he entered.

Nor did he say whether it was Guangling Academy’s Star Gate he entered.

He just attributed everything related to the ’Mountain and Sea Realm’ to Jiang Bianliu, thus having this veteran cover for him, which was the intention of Elder Jiang, and Yan Chuan did not want to let down his goodwill.

Initially, he wanted to communicate with Shao Yancong, but it was evidently unnecessary.

"Brother Jiang!"

"So that’s how it is!"

Shao Yancong clearly knew of Jiang Bianliu, and upon hearing it was his assistance to Yan Chuan, he wasn’t surprised, merely chuckling, "Since you already got the secret from Brother Jiang, it saves me the effort."

Shao Yancong then didn’t explain the ’Star Gate’ or ’Mountain and Sea Realm’ to Yan Chuan anymore and nodded towards the topic Yan Chuan raised earlier, shaking his head, "The court’s actions are understandable. Since you’ve been exposed to it, you should know, once that news is released, it will certainly cause an earth-shattering sensation, with ensuing chaos. How things will develop, no one can predict. It might be good, or it might be bad. The court aims for stability, daring not to act recklessly. They can only open things up step by step, accumulate step by step, and wait until they have enough power, enough foundation, to announce it to the world, which is the prudent course of action."

Zhao Ye also said, "Drawing in the Six Major Sects is the first step, broadly establishing Martial Arts Academies is the second step. Now, it has been ten years since Great Yan Buwu started, and I have a feeling that the day when it is announced to the whole world is not far off!"

Indeed!

Not far!

However, it’s a pity for the older generation of Old School Martial Artists.

It’s not to blame anyone, but it’s regrettable after all.

It can only be said that the new generation of martial artists, regardless of New or Old Faction, is born in a good era. As Zhao Ye said, the day when the Great Yan Court announces the ’Mountain and Sea Realm’ is not far off, giving the new generation of martial artists, even the Old School, the chance to access the ’Mountain and Sea Realm’, which is undoubtedly a good era.

"A good era?"

"But maybe not!"

"That place is bizarre, what relation it truly has with us, no one knows even now."

"We can go there now, but in the future, will they also be able to come here?"

Shao Yancong was more cautious.

Good era?

Bad era?

Who can say for sure!

...

Due to the Star Gate Iron Law, Shao Yancong and Zhao Ye couldn’t talk about the Mountain and Sea Realm openly, and though Yan Chuan had a ’Star Stone’ that allowed him to ignore the Star Gate Iron Law, he still conformed to local norms, remaining enigmatic.

It was tiring to talk about it.

So.

He didn’t discuss this topic.

"The Three Methods of Limit-breaking——"

Yan Chuan switched the topic, bringing up the final method among the ’Three Methods of Limit-breaking’ that Shao Yancong hadn’t finished earlier: "First is ’Treasure Breakthrough’, second is ’Sudden Enlightenment Breakthrough’, and the third, what is the third?"

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